Chaja-Rejzel Luski

Chaja-Rejzel Luski received transit visa no. 824 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 15 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

15

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #538, #539

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1925 Woronkowo; Reverends (Luski family)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 14 Feb 1941 (line 824)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaja Rejzel Luski, 1941: born about 1926, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaja Rejzel Luski, born about 1926 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1925, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  She left Yokohama on the Tatuta Maru on 15 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Chana [faint; could be Chaja]". (Tatuta Maru, Yokohama, 15 May 1941.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaja Rejzel Luski, born in 1923, daughter of Mojsze Lejba and Szejna Ryfka, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and her parents' names agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3410, Chaja Rejzel Luska, born in 1923, who came from Swieciany. Szejna Rywka and Mojsze-Lejb Luska are the next two entries.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.

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